Corresponding author: Sung Hee Choi Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 166 Gumi-ro, Bundang-gu, Seongnam 463-707, Korea Email: [email protected] Hemoglobin A1c (A1c) has been investigated as a target for treatment of diabetes. Work has been done toward the standardization of A1c measurement, and the standa...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the accuracy of self-reported diabetes among multi-ethnic older adults by psychosocial factors and assess predictors of diabetes risk, diagnosis, and control. DESIGN AND METHODS The 2006 Health and Retirement Study (N=5,594) was used to determine agreement between self-reported diabetes and measured diabetes (HbA1c> or = 6.5%) by age, sex, race/ethnicity, nativity, educa...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate haemoglobin A1c (HbA(1c)) in diagnosing diabetes and identify the optimal HbA(1c) threshold to be used in Chinese adults. DESIGN Multistage stratified cross sectional epidemiological survey. SETTING Shanghai, China, 2007-8. PARTICIPANTS 4886 Chinese adults over 20 years of age with no history of diabetes. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Performance of HbA(1c) at increasing ...

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a complex metabolic disorder characterized by chronic hyperglycemia. Diabetes mellitus (DM) is undiagnosed in approximately half of the patients actually suffering fromdisease. In addition, the prevalence of DM is more than twice as high in patients with periodontitis when compared to periodontally healthy subjects. Periodontitis is the sixth most common complication o...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES One third of diabetes cases in the United States are undiagnosed. Knowledge of the patient's experience from symptom recognition to diabetes diagnosis will help clinicians and policy makers optimize their approach to diabetes detection. METHODS We interviewed 15 patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes within the past 6 months about how they came to be diagnosed and a...

AIMS/INTRODUCTION To estimate the prevalence and clinical profile of diabetes mellitus in productive aged urban Indonesians based on the National Basic Health Research 2007. MATERIALS AND METHODS The statistical analyses of a cross-sectional survey included the data of 15,332 adults, aged 18-55 years, living in an urban area. Blood glucose was measured by an automatic clinical chemistry analy...

BACKGROUND Diabetes represents one of the major health challenges in Switzerland, and early diagnosis and treatment is mandatory to prevent or delay diabetes-related morbidity and mortality. For the purpose of identifying affected individuals, early screening in pharmacies is a valuable option. In this survey, we aimed to determine blood glucose and metabolic control in an unselected population...

OBJECTIVE The goal of the present work was to examine the prevalence and associated risk factors of undiagnosed diabetes among urban Moroccan Sahraoui women. DESIGN AND SETTING Randomised sample of adult women living in the city of Laayoune in south Morocco who visited public health centres during an immunisation campaign. Body weight, height, waist and hip circumferences, blood pressure, fas...